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USA to Hold Talk on Racial Discrimination in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow ΊΪΑΟΜμΜΓ

Posted on October 10, 2017
Joy Washington

An African-American soldier with the 12th Armored Division, Seventh U.S. Army, stands guard over a group of captured German soldiers. Photo courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. data-lightbox='featured'
An African-American soldier with the 12th Armored Division, Seventh U.S. Army, stands guard over a group of captured German soldiers. Photo courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The ΊΪΑΟΜμΜΓ, with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will host a talk on β€œRacial Discrimination & Institutionalized Violence in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow ΊΪΑΟΜμΜΓ” from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, at the Terrace Room in the Student Center on ΊΪΑΟΜμΜΓ’s campus. This event is free and open to the public.

According to Dr. David Meola, program organizer and the Bert and Fanny Meisler Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at ΊΪΑΟΜμΜΓ Alabama, students, scholars and the campus community will explore the involvement of governments and racial violence in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow ΊΪΑΟΜμΜΓ within their specific historical contexts.

β€œWe would like to invite the Mobile community to join us in discussing the histories of minority groups who have been oppressed here in Alabama and in Germany,” Meola noted. β€œThese timely conversations are important in building relationships and understanding within our communities.”

The panel of speakers will include several scholars and Meola. His talk will be on β€œJewish German Lives under Siege.” Dr. Kern Jackson, director of African American Studies and assistant professor of English at ΊΪΑΟΜμΜΓ, will speak on β€œWithout Sanctuary: Lynching in Alabama History.”  Dr. Phil Carr, the Chief Calvin McGhee Professor of Native American Studies and director of the Archaeology Museum at ΊΪΑΟΜμΜΓ, will speak on β€œDenial of Equal Education to Native Americans,” and Dr. Jake Newsome, campus outreach program officer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will talk about β€œRace and Violence in the Nazi Campaign against Homosexuality.”

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